Centennial-Scale Sea Surface Temperature Analysis and Its Uncertainty

analysis of sea surface current in sea surface temperature images

oceanographic images obtained from environmental satellites by a wide range of sensors allow characterizing natural phenomena through different physical measurements. for instance sea surface temperature (sst) images, altimetry data and ocean color data can be used for characterizing currents and vortex structures in the ocean. the purpose of this thesis is to derive a relatively complete frame...

Blended Analysis for Sea Surface Temperature

The purpose of this paper is to focus on improvements to the climate-scale SST analyses produced at NOAA as described by Reynolds and Smith (1994) and Reynolds et al. (2002). This analysis uses infrared (IR) satellite data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and in situ data from ships and buoys. The analysis is done by optimum interpolation (OI) with a separate step to co...

Sea surface temperature variability: patterns and mechanisms.

Patterns of sea surface temperature (SST) variability on interannual and longer timescales result from a combination of atmospheric and oceanic processes. These SST anomaly patterns may be due to intrinsic modes of atmospheric circulation variability that imprint themselves upon the SST field mainly via surface energy fluxes. Examples include SST fluctuations in the Southern Ocean associated wi...

A New High-resolution Sea Surface Temperature Blended Analysis

Maryland; Harris and Koner—NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, and CICS, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland; Mittaz—University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; sapper—NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO, College Park, Maryland; WicK— NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, Colorado; zHu—NOAA/NESDIS/ STAR, College Park, and Global Science and Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland; dasH—NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, ...

Investigation of a large-scale mode of ocean/atmosphere variability and its relation to tropical Pacific sea-surface temperature anomalies